THE
Cavendish Auctions of Derby website is
selling by auction a 1934-6 photo album
claimed to belong to Eva Braun (right),
supported by a 1945 Daily Mirror
clipping stating that the album was found
in Hitler's Berlin bunker: 73 unpublished
photos of Hitler and friends Estimate:
£10,000

[Lot] 4169 - EVA
BRAUN'S PERSONAL PHOTOGRAPH ALBUM
c1934-36: Rectangular (330 x
230 mm) album with canvas covers
stencilled with an Art Deco swastika motif
in red & black and containing 73
'snaps', many captioned on the reverse or
on the page - none previously published;
subjects include informal portraits of
Hitler reading papers on the
terrace at Berchtesgaden and strolling in
the groounds, various views of the
mountain retreat, Hitler with crowds
outside the gates, groups of
stormtroopers, Heinrich Himmler, Joseph
Goebbels, a torch-lit meeting, Hitler
getting into his car outside the
Chancellery, groups of soldiers, the
Führer's office, Junkers plane with
soldier escort party, etc.

A newspaper cutting from The Daily
Mirror (16 July 1945) pasted inside
the cover tells the story of the album's
discovery in the Berlin bunker after the
marriage and suicides of Hitler & Eva
Braun and attempts to construct a
love-affair between Braun and one of the
pictured guards.

Eva Braun was assistant to Hitler's
photographer, [Heinrich] Hoffmann
and was responsible with him for the tide
of Nazi propaganda photograph material
which flooded Germany in the mid-1930s; a
distant relative
[sic]
of the Führer, she became his
companion and - ultimately - his wife. The
album was stored in a South African bank
vault for many years before being
purchased by the present owner; none of
the pictures has been published
previously. The album's covers are dusty
with two or three tears, interleaving is
torn but all photographs are in fine
condition (one is creased); there are 73
of the original 74 photographs remaining
in the album. A unique item.